Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace to his world. Juan's marriage to Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) is suffering under the strain of sexual ennui the banal rigors of bringing up young children and living in a community where he is clearly an outsider. The morality of family life is further complicated by Juan's post-colonial Mexican ethnicity and... position as an employer and elite landowner in a country with an increasingly divergent wealth divide. Carlos Reygadas' (Battle in Heaven Silent Light) latest won Best Director in Cannes 2012. It's a gorgeous allusive masterpiece examining marriage poverty class gender our place in nature and how evil lives with us in the most intimate and ordinary of places. It's a wonder. Special Features: Trailer Interviews [show more]
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Director Carlos Reygadas paints an evocative portrait of a Mexican's struggles to live away from the mainstream. Deciding to leave the rat race behind, rich industrialist Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro), along with his wife Nathalia (Nathalia Acevedo) and two children, relocate to start anew in a seemingly rural idyll. But Juan soon finds that country life has its own problems as he struggles to cope with being an outsider in his new community, allied with the pressures that raising a young family exerts on his already strained marriage.
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